# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thornton-wilder
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:45:05.167Z

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name: "Thornton Wilder"
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description: "Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day."
tagline: "American playwright and novelist (1897–1975)"
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birthDate: "1897-04-17"
deathDate: "1975-12-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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